Chieftain - 25%
Warlord - 50%
Prince - 75%
King - 100%
Emperor - 125%
Deity - 150%

On Deity, for example, a barb unit with an Attack Factor of 2, would attack with a strength of 3.

GAME C W P K E D
FEATURE

Starting 50 0 0 0 0 0
funds

Content
citizens 6 5 4 3 2 1

Rows in
food box 15 13 12 10 9 8

Rows in
shield box 15 13 12 10 9 8

Science
Increments
(human) 6 8 10 12 14 14*

Science
Increments
(computer) 14 13 12 11 10 10*

Barbarian
attack
strength 25% 50% 75% 100% 125% 150%

*On Deity level, this number may be adjusted + or - 1, depending how far ahead or behind you are in research

Science increments (human) = the modifier used to help determine how many science light bulbs are required to discover the next advance for the player. Smaller the number, the more quickly advances are discovered

Science increments (computer) = the same, for computer-controlled civs.

Some other level-based info. Some may already know it, some may not:

CHIEF LEVEL - The attack factor of your units is doubled. Also, you are not charged the 50% shield penalty when you change the item being built in mid-production.

PRINCE (and higher) - The AI-controlled civs may be "assisted" by the computer if you are significantly ahead in technology, especially in the case of Civ Advance research. Also, the higher the difficulty level, the more likely alliances will be formed against you. At the higher levels, the AI will try harder to build spaceships; and if you are the first to launch a spaceship, the computer-controlled civs often team up to achieve your destruction (regardless of treaties).

EMPEROR & DEITY - AI-controlled civs can bribe your cities. Also, AI civs won't trade you any techs that allow you to build a Wonder that they are already building.

quote: Originally posted by The Mad Viking on 09-22-2000 12:16 PM I dunno, but the way two barb cruseders just SMOKED my two fortified musketeers, (deity) I am a BELIEVER. Is the defense factor modified too?

I just lost a Legion on a hill (not fortified) to an AI warrior (not a barb) under a sneak attack. (I foolishly thought that the AI would not dare attack!!)

My Legion was a NONE unit, and I seem to experience that NONEs are weaker defensively than built units.

Any opinions?

I assume the Official Strategy Guide is a book, not something I could access directly on the Web (for free)? Is it really official, so that we can be pretty confident it's accurate, or is it just somebody's conclusions? Conclusions can easily be wrong: I, for example, recently decided to find out (for the AI cheats thread) exactly how the numbers-of-food-and-shields-needed-by-the-AI varies according to level, and since the empty box itself shrinks below 10-size at high levels but doesn't grow beyond 10-size at low levels, I concluded that it was 10 for levels 1 through 4. But just now I created a first-level game and cheat-observed a couple dozen turns, and lo and behold, the StratGuide is right and I was wrong.

I'd have to say it's fairly reliable. An equation printed in the book for calculating unhappiness factors was proved by one of our resident mathematicians here to have errors in it.

The book doesn't offer any more information about the science equation. Sorry, I'm not a mathematician, so I can't help you either. I know it's been discussed at length before in these forums. Hopefully one of those participants will see this and help out. You could try posting a thread about it in either this forum or the MP forum. You're bound to get the answer.